Archive for December, 2011

Fat in our body is a storage unit. Many people know that we store fat soluble vitamins such as vitamins A & D, vitamin E and essential fatty acids in our fat and liver in our body. So this is a good thing. Fat also keeps us warm and gives us that glow of good health when in perfect harmony with muscle and a great diet and lifestyle.

As a storage unit however, fat is known to store many toxins. The body insulates us from these toxins by storing toxins in our nervous system (brain, spinal cord, nerves), our liver, our bones and our fat mass.

We store toxins such as the following in our fat mass:

heavy metals such as aluminium, mercury, cadmium, arsenic, lead…

pesticides, herbicides and other food-toxins

preservatives, colourings, flavourings

stress hormones such as cortisol, adrenalin, noradrenalin…

pain hormones

drug residue – any drugs commonly taken such as pain killers, the OCP, anti-depressants etc

So, you can imagine when you start a weight loss programme, particularly a successful programme such as the HCG diet or the Shake It/Keto Programmes the fat loss will start (almost immediately) and these toxins will be released into the bloodstream to be eliminated.

In our clinic, in order to find out how you are coping with these toxins we may recommend:

ph testing – oral & urine to find out how well your body is coping with toxins through the whole digestive tract;

urinary indicans – lets us know how much dodgy bacteria your body has, therefore liver detoxification would be exceptionally dangerous at that stage;

infrared saunas – we have 2 private rooms – infrared saunas penetrate 6cm under the skin instantly – this mobilises toxins from the fat tissue, blood stream, bone, spinal cord and releases them to be removed from your body…

So, fat loss WITHOUT detoxification can be very dangerous. We have seen cases of people getting chronic fatigue syndrome, arthritis, migraines after weight loss without detoxification. There are simple things you can talk to us about that will be safe, easy and effective to both lose weight healthily AND detox simultaneously…

structural fat is great for keeping our joints and bones bending easily

brown fat is our survival fat – lives around and inside our organs and our muscles and designed to be burned for energy when we are starving or freezing to death, hmmmm not likely these days, huh?!

unfortunately fat also has the unpleasant job of storing toxins – any toxins we breathe/eat and can’t eliminate or any toxins we create from internal processes such as pain, inflammation and stress

fat is also known to store excess insulin (tummy fat/visceral fat) particularly

Therefore for those of us who eat more than we should, eat the wrong combinations of foods, alcohol, meats, fruits, we can have to store excess calories as fat. Food can turn into fat within 12 hours in a body that is not burning enough calories for energy.